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The W3C Credentials Community Group

The mission of the W3C Credentials Community Group is to explore the creation, storage, presentation, verification, and user control of credentials. We focus on a verifiable credential (a set of claims) created by an issuer about a subject—a person, group, or thing—and seek solutions inclusive of approaches such as: self-sovereign identity; presentation of proofs by the bearer; data minimization; and centralized, federated, and decentralized registry and identity systems. Our tasks include drafting and incubating Internet specifications for further standardization and prototyping and testing reference implementations.

2018 Agenda

The following specifications are currently being incubated or managed by this group:

W3C Working Group Specifications

Verifiable Claims Data Model 1.0 - A standard mechanism for expressing items such as driver's licenses, employee ID cards, proofs of age, and other sorts of claims in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and automatically verifiable.